Kicking Articles
Practical guidance on technique, training, and equipment for kickers and parents.
Field Goal Drills: How to Make Solid Contact
Field Goal Drills: How to Make Solid Contact Why Do I Need To Practice This? If you struggle with kicking a football far, getting great height on your field goals, nice end-over-end rotation, [...]
Offseason Technique Improvements
Off-season Technique Improvements Congratulations! You are almost there...the end of the 2013 fall football season. Here in late October, that means that your season might already be over, or you could be closing shop soon [...]
Taylor Tidaback, Answering The Call To Kick
Taylor Tidaback, Answering The Call To Kick When I asked Taylor Tidaback what the one piece of advice the first time senior kicker for Villa Rica High School would give to [...]
Competing To Be The Starting Kicker
Competing To Be The Starting Kicker This is the time of year so many people love. It's fall, time to pull out the parking lot grills and get ready for some football! However, for some, [...]
Don’t Fear The Goat!
Hero or goat? No kicker wants to hear the word goat or even 'choke'. In fact just saying either word probably brings sweat bullets to any kicker's forehead. I know it did with me. It's [...]
Punting Drills
Punting Drills We're back! I apologize for the long delay in posting anything on our blogs as well as being M.I.A. for any on-field or online needs the past few weeks. I just went through [...]
Why Are Kickers Important?
Importance of ChartingSimilar to my blog last week, we will focus on the question, "why are kickers important?" this week. I have heard it a million times throughout my career, "kickers aren't real football players."Well [...]
Why Are Punters Important?
Why Are Punters Important? If kickers are "not real football players" then what does that make punters? I mean kickers put points on the board and can win the game in the last second. Well [...]
Feel The Draft?
Specialists In The NFL Draft As I type this post, there are throngs of former college football players eagerly watching the NFL draft. In fact, there is a crop of kickers waiting anxiously to find [...]
Recruiting Off The Field
Recruiting Off The Field It is not everyone's goal to continue a kicking career in college or beyond, but this even applies to you if you are trying to make your high school or middle [...]